Register of Electors - 1925

Transcribed by R W Standing

The Electoral Reform of 1918 eliminated the old form of ownership electors and brought in all males over the age of 21 as well as women over 30, for national elections.

The lists indicate the basis of a person’s qualification, by residence or occupation of a house or by that of a husband, but that indicates where a person was qualified to vote in parliamentary elections not the fact of property providing the right to vote. The list was therefore much expanded to include adult children and servants living in a household.

However the qualification for Local elections was still based on property, and therefore R – simple residence, was no qualification, and ownership of a house can be deduced from the qualification letters for local elections - that is the Letter O, but in some cases the husband is not on the list being presumably absent for some reason. The occupiers were not always husband and wife, but family relations, and so it is not always clear what the relationships were.

Men – six months occupancy of premises or land in the area

Women – as for men, or else as a wife of a man qualified to vote, if she was over the age of 30

This Transcript of Angmering electors includes all names list as qualified for Local elections – O and HO.

The numbering therefore omits those relating mainly to assumed servants, children and others residents.

Addresses are still very uniformative, often only giving the street name, or the house name. However, we have added some road names where known, e.g. [High Street], to assist researchers.

Some names left out may be of interest when the full series is transcribed; several mariners etc were absent.